Social care services
Al Shafaqa Foundation for Renal Failure and Cancer Care provides many services in the field of health care to help beneficiaries and save their lives in light of the difficult conditions in Yemen and the poorest families
Accommodation
The Foundation provided the service of accommodating patients and their companions, who come from different governorates and regions of the Republic, where they are accommodated in the housing affiliated to it in the capital Sana’a, and the housing for patients consists of several wings, for men, women and children.
Over the past two years, the Foundation has been keen to increase the number of beds in the residence, reaching more than one hundred and fifty beds, while taking care of the women and children’s wings, expanding the scope of their absorption for patients, and providing the children’s ward with entertainment and other components of child-friendly spaces.
Accommodation
Daily nutrition
Within the framework of the multiple social care services provided by the Foundation to patients, who are accommodated in its housing, the Foundation provides a daily nutrition service, where three meals are provided per day to patients, according to a nutritional schedule that includes determining the components of the meal according to health standards, which suit all patients’ health conditions. The number of meals provided to patients and their companions during the year 2020 amounted to more than 224 thousand meals.
Daily nutrition
Transferring patients to laundry and cancer centers
Among the daily difficulties and problems facing patients with kidney failure and cancer, is the issue of transferring them to dialysis centers in hospitals, to carry out two dialysis sessions during the week, receive radiological sessions, and conduct the necessary examinations. To contribute to alleviating their suffering, and to help their families, in providing some financial costs that they will need for their other requirements.
Cash assistance to patients
The Foundation is doing its best to provide various types of support and assistance to patients with kidney failure and cancer, which it shelters in its housing, and other patients who frequent it daily. During the year 2020, in cooperation with a number of businessmen, donors and philanthropists, aid was distributed Cash, which contributed to supporting the beneficiary patients and their families, by providing them with cash, which they use to meet their basic living and living requirements. Patients in the residence, and other patients who come to the institution, from outside the housing, during the month of Ramadan, benefited from this assistance.